Ozone 7 Advanced from iZotope builds on the major updates the company made in Ozone 6, including an improved visual aesthetic for guiding users through every stage of the mastering process. Aside from the fluid workflow, the creative elements of mastering continue to be front and center in this update, allowing users to define their own sound with ease. The advanced version features several vintage modeled processors, a departure from the company's prior emphasis on transparent mastering.

The Vintage Tape module brings the distinctive richness and feel of tape saturation with all the frequency coloration, distortion, and phase effects of tape, while the Vintage Compressor module is a single-band feedback compressor suitable for subtle warming and sweetening effects. Vintage EQ allows for brightening the master, smoothing out heavy low end, and adding body to digital recordings with the musicality and color of Pultec equalizers. Insight, the company's metering suite, is included as a separate component plug-in, while Codec preview provides real-time listening to how a master will sound when rendered with various industry-standard codecs.

The Maximizer, updated for Ozone 7, features a new frequency-specific IRC IV algorithm to deliver transparent mixes with less pumping and distortion. Smooth out an unwieldy mix or tame kick drum peaks without affecting the vocals. Dynamic EQ provides finer control over audio by taking advantage of the precision of an equalizer, with the musical ballistics of a compressor, in one integrated processor.

Two equalizers are included that combine eight bands of adjustable filters with a choice of filter shapes. Each band of dynamics is capable of three types of dynamics processing - limiting, compressing, and expanding, while an exciter module allows for dialing in the right amount of bite or warmth to a master. Precisely adjust the stereo width of an audio file using the four-frequency-band Imager module.

Additional presets have been created with outcome-oriented descriptions. Dithering has been updated and includes a set of bit scopes and DC level meters. The application also functions standalone, with the added enhancement of third party plug-in hosting. Trim and fade controls are provided, along with SRC (sample rate conversion) on import, plus single- and multiple-file export with the company's MBIT+ Dither.

What's New

Vintage Tape module brings the distinctive richness and warmth of tape saturation to modern digital recordings with all the frequency coloration, distortion, and phase effects of tape

Vintage EQ features the richness, warmth, and color of Pultec equalizers with discrete frequency value selections that allow for boosting and cutting separately but at the same time

Vintage Compressor is a single-band compression module for subtle warming and sweetening effects using a program-dependent release

Codec Preview allows for listening to how a master will sound using various industry-standard codecs

Vintage Limiter - glue a mix together and add character with the analog-sounding final-stage limiting while retaining the ease and precision of digital maximizing

Export Formats - specify the file format for export from a variety of compressed or uncompressed popular choices like MP3, WAV, and AAC

Upgraded Maximizer features a new algorithm (IRC IV) with multiband and frequency-specific operation

Maximizer

Transparent limiting with multiple modes of the IRC (Intelligent Release Control) limiter technology, including the new IRC IV

Intelligently automate the difficult task of finding the right release times with Adaptive Release mode

Automatically set crossover frequencies based on incoming audio with Learn mode

Adjust the dynamics of the center of a mix independently of the sides of the mix with mid/side processing mode

Find the perfect compressor settings with the Gain Reduction Trace view, which plots the gain reduction of all dynamics bands on top of a scrolling waveform, and get further visualization with the Dynamic Transfer Curve and spectrum analyzer

Solo only the audio data that lossy compression is removing from the mix to be sure that everything important isn't getting lost in translation

Compensate for the sonic changes due to lossy codec compression without leaving the audio editing software

Export Formats

Export masters to a variety of formats, sample rates, and bit rates for wherever the music will be heard - no need for a separate converter Export rich metadata including track name, band name, album, name, and more when exporting to MP3 and AAC

Standalone Application

Integrate other plug-ins within an Ozone mastering chain with Audio Units/VST plug-in hosting

Adjust the tops and tails of audio with Trim and Fade controls

Instantly highlight changes and similar sections of audio with Waveform Segmentation overlay